The agricultural union Coag organizes a conference on the challenges of employment in the agricultural sector in the face of the new standard
Some 200 farmers attended this Tuesday the conference on ‘The challenges of employment in the Murcian agricultural sector and the labor reform’ convened by the Coordinator of Farmers and Ranchers (Coag), in search of answers to their many doubts about the new norm and its fit in the primary sector. In the session, held in Lorca as a municipality that leads Murcia’s agricultural contracting with 9,700 jobs, lawyers, labor consultants, labor inspectors and representatives of the sector participated, as well as regional and local administrations.
For the president of Coag in the Region, José Miguel Marín, the labor reform approved in December by the Government, “has fallen like a bucket of cold water” because “it has not been taken into account in the design.” He added that it is not adapted to the real needs of temporality and flexibility that agricultural activities require and that it is not adjusted to the productive reality of Murcian agriculture, its seasonality, its type of worker or the organization that these activities require, and it does not take into account the large fluctuations experienced by the real needs of labor depending on the harvests».
The Minister of Business, Valle Miguélez, acknowledged that the regional government is also “surprised” by a labor reform not agreed with the field and said she understands the “uncertainty situation” in the sector. The Executive will contact institutions and associations in the sector to be able to make “allegations or proposals so that the regulation takes into account aspects that the decree does not contemplate.”
The possibility of introducing modifications or exceptions in the regulatory development of the regulation was also considered by the mayor, Diego José Mateos, who considered that the labor reform “has led to an improvement in the quality and stability of employment.” The territorial director of the Labor Inspection, Fernando José Vélez, said that the labor reform “introduces important changes in the type of contracts that were usually used” and that “a period of adaptation and learning is necessary, also for the Administration itself” .
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